BY AFP
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday survived a vote of no confidence from his own Conservative MPs but with his position weakened after a sizeable number refused to back him.
The Brexit figurehead called the 211-148 split a “convincing result, a decisive result”.
“As a government we can move on and focus on the stuff that really matters,” he told reporters.
The vote — just over two years after he won a landslide general election victory — was brought after a string of scandals that have left the Tory party’s standing in tatters.
Chief among them was the “Partygate” controversy over lockdown-breaking events at Downing Street, which caused public outrage and saw him become the first serving UK prime minister to have broken the law.
